Britain's best stately homes

Montacute House, Somerset
Used to represent Greenwich Palace in the television adaptation of Wolf Hall,
the Hilary Mantel novel, this Elizabethan mansion was funded by Sir Edward
Phelips, and built in local stone. Its Long Gallery is the longest of its
kind in England and has over 60 Tudor and Elizabethan portraits on loan from
the National Portrait Gallery. See our full
gallery of more Wolf Hall filming locations. The Fatal Courtship: take a Telegraph Tour with Suzannah Lipscomb.
Telegraph Travel readers are being offered the chance to take a three-night
tour of Eltham Palace, Allington Castle and Hampton Court, the locations of
Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's courtship. See telegraph.co.uk/thetudors
for more information.